Tar and Novell DLT Tapes

[Justin Bennett]

Ok that will be no problem, I'd check the documentation. and see what 
the optimum block size is to get the best performance when backing up. 
the DLT 40/80GB is 64K. so when you do the tar do it with the -b for 
blocksize. You can do a man tar for the syntax. My backups went from 5.5 
hours to about 2 hours a tape with the correct block size.  For the 
20/40s it may not make a big difference.

Justin
 

Carl Yost Jr. wrote:

>They are DLT IV tape 20/40 gig. I just need them to be over written. WOn't need them to be read :D.
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>  Carl
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>From: Justin Bennett <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com>
>Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
>Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:29:31 -0400
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>>Do you want to Read the novel tapes? Or just reuse old tapes and write 
>>to them in linux with tar? If so, the tapes will be fine to write to. 
>>Tar will just overwrite whats on the tape. If you want to read existing 
>>novell tapes thats another issue. What type of DLT tapes? If your using 
>>tar, make sure the block size is correct or the backup will run alot 
>>slower.
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>>Carl Yost Jr. wrote:
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>>>Hey guys,
>>> Anyone know if Tar will be able to format the tapes we used in novell and make the tape useable by linux? We are swapping the dlt drive to the linux box :D. Any help would be greatly appreciated :D.
>>>
>>> Carl
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